Hella-really, used when describing something or someone. Example: "She's hella weird."

Deadass-an emphasis on seriously. Example: "Deadass, this is the best meal I've ever had."

AF-acronym, stands for 'as f*ck' Example: "I'm tired AF."

Tea-gossip. Example: "Spill the tea."

Sis-sister. Example: "Love you, sis!"

RIP-if something bad happens, you would say RIP, you're not actually telling them to rest in peace. Example: "My phone broke." "RIP."

OD-Over Doing It. Example: "Let's spit in her food." "Nah, that's OD."

Thicc-hot, cute, describing a person. Example: "She thicc."

Highkey-obvious. Example: "Highkey, everyone knows she's faking."

Lowkey-not obvious. Example: "Lowkey, she's so smart."

Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgment of others and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings in our life.

Don't seek permission to be happy.

I write things in my house, and hopefully there's a reader out there who enjoys it and has an experience with it, but that's very different than a performer on stage, where there's an immediate dance with the audience. It's incredibly powerful.

I am always sort of delightedly surprised when someone recognizes me because as far as I'm concerned, I'm just going to work and getting paid to act, and that alone is fantastic; I forget people watch it, too.

In trials of fact, by oral testimony, the proper inquiry is not whether is it possible that the testimony may be false, but whether there is sufficient probability that it is true.

In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

When a conservative praises a liberal as 'morally serious,' he means that person is less liberal than most.

Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,- that is all. Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Western-style multi-party democracy is possible but not suitable for Africa.

It's amazing how much you can get done if you don't worry about who gets the credit.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

The motto of the old order in the City of London was, 'My word is my bond,' but the financial crisis revealed a culture quite alien to that heritage. The stewards of people's money were revealed to have been speculators with it.

Fear looks; faith jumps.

Diligence is a good thing but taking things easy is much more restful.

My nomadic childhood dramatically fed my eventual decision to be an actor, but not in the way you might think.

And the White Album is important to me for different reasons. One - I had left the band on the White Album.

I've got four houses in my street. I live in two, and the others are empty. I'll buy more as they come up, because I think it would be great to have the entire street.

I don't need to publish to make a living.

I'm so sick of seeing these movies where married couples are just cuddling on the couch and caressing each other's faces.

I like doing character movies. I like doing movies about personal situations; that's what I love about dealing with things.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Man loves liberty, even if he does not know that he loves it. He is driven by it and flees from where it does not exist.